PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS IT IS NOT ABOUT EMBROIDERY BUT ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE KIDS ARE DOING TO GET A KICK YOU WILL NOT BELIVE WHAT THEY ARE USING ...LOOK INSIDE PLEASE....

This breaks my heart. WHY? WHY? WHY? Isn't there enough tragedy, killing, death and destruction in this world without our kids LOOKING for new ways to destroy their lives and ours!!!

I have bn aware of this some time ezzemmi, having school teacher 4 G.children & a daughter, they keep me pretty well informed, they have had seminars & classes on how to deal with these kids & to warn them of the outcomes. It is so very sad, that kids do some of the things they do today. I'd rather have the good old days when the worse u did was smoke rabbit tobacco behine the barn, that just made u sick with no lasting effect, *4u 4 keeping others informed

I am sitting here with tears running down my face, with children about your sons age I am mortified to find what they will do next. Thanks for the information now I can explain to my children the dangers. Good luck to you and your family.

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by ezzemml 16 Jun 2008

it is not my son it is an email i received

it is horrible. It is well to share that, every one with children must know that. Should it be possible to write on those box: dangerous

thanks for sharing this, you just have to wonder what are they and not only kids but adults are going to try next. Thanks

Thank you for sharing! I don't know if kids do it in France, too, but I just put my dust off out of reach... and I'll talk to my collegues at school tomorrow!

Thanks for sharing this. Yes, I have heard of this before. It is endless as to what one will think of.

I have actually heard a news report from a local news station about this. It is awful how blind children are to dangers. Anything that gives you a high can be dangerious, and can't be just air.

I am unable to imagine the scope of sorrow felt when a tragedy like this occurs. Thank you for the information.

This is very scary stuff. What a tragedy for that poor family. I am going to make enquiries and see if it is available here in South Africa. *4U for sharing this story.

I've seen this story on Snopes. It's tragic. I think it's safe to say anything chemical base is harmful and/or deadly. The bigger question is how to get through to kids that it is a big deal.

Thank-you ezzemmi. I'll copy this and post it at work for parents to read. As far as I know, this action has not become popular in our area...YET.

My heart and prayers go out to you and your family. I can only imagine how hard it was for you to write to us. Know that we are all here for you and that we all will pass on this message to everyone we know.

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by ezzemml 15 Jun 2008

it is not my family it was in a email i got from a friend in the USA

This hurts my heart. I have two kids and hate the idea of something like this happens to any of them. Thank you for sharing. Flower and XoXo

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by ezzemml 15 Jun 2008

THANKS FOR READING IT IT IS TO IMPORTANT I JUST HAD TO POST IT.

D U S T I N G

First, I'm going to tell you a little about me and my family. My name is Jeff. I am a Police Officer for a city which is known nationwide for its crime rate. We have a lot of gangs and drugs. At one point we were #2 in the nation in homicides per capita. I also have a police K-9 named Thor. He was certified in drugs and general duty. He retired at 3 years old because he was shot in the line of duty. He lives with us now and I still train with him because he likes it. I always liked the fact that there was no way to bring drugs into my house. Thor wouldn't allow it. He would tell on you. The reason I say this is so you understand that I know about drugs.

I have taught in schools about drugs. My wife asks all our kids at least once a week if they used any drugs. Makes them promise they won't.

I like building computers occasionally and started building a new one in February 2005. I also was working on some of my older computers. They were full of dust so on one of my trips to the computer store I bought a 3 pack of DUST OFF. Dust Off is a can of compressed air to blow dust off a computer. A few weeks later when I went to use one of them they were all used. I talked to my kids and my two sons both said they had used them on their computer and messing around with them. I yelled at them for wasting the 10 dollars I paid for them.

On February 28 I went back to the computer store. They didn't have the 3 pack which I had bought on sale so I bought a single jumbo can of Dust Off. I went home and set it down beside my computer. On March 1st, I left for work at 10 PM. Just before midnight my wife went down and kissed Kyle goodnight. At 5:30 am the next morning Kathy went downstairs to wake Kyle up for school, before she left for work. He was propped up in bed with his legs crossed and his head leaning over. She called to him a few times to get up. He didn't move. He would sometimes tease her like this and pretend he fell back asleep. He was never easy to get up. She went in and shook his arm. He fell over. He was pale white and had the straw from the Dust Off can coming out of his mouth. He had the new can of Dust Off in his hands. Kyle was dead.

I am a police officer and I had never heard of this. My wife is a nurse and she had never heard of this. We later found out from the coroner, after the autopsy, that only the propellant from the can of Dust off was in his system. No other drugs. Kyle had died between midnight and 1 AM. I found out that using Dust Off is being done mostly by kids ages 9 through 15. They even have a name for it. It's called dusting. A take off from the
Dust Off name. It gives them a slight high for about 10 seconds. It makes them dizzy. A boy who lives down the street from us showed Kyle how to do this about a month before. Kyle showed his best friend. Told him it was cool and it couldn't hurt you. It's just compressed air. It can't hurt you. His best friend said no.

Kyle was wrong. It's not just compressed air. It also contains a propellant called R2. It's a refrigerant like what is used in your refrigerator. It is a heavy gas, heavier than air. When you inhale it, it fills your lungs and keeps the good air, with oxygen, out that's why you feel dizzy, buzzed. It decreases the oxygen to your brain, to your heart. Kyle was right. It can't hurt you. IT KILLS YOU!

The horrible part about this is there is no warning. There is no level that kills you. It's not cumulative or an overdose; it can just go randomly, terribly wrong. Roll the dice and if your number comes up you die. IT'S NOT AN OVERDOSE. It's Russian Roulette. You don't die later. Or not feel good and say I've had too much. You usually die as you're breathing it in, if not you die within 2 seconds of finishing 'the hit.' That's why the straw was still in Kyle's mouth when he died. Why his eyes were still open.

The experts want to call this huffing. The kids don't believe its huffing. As adults we tend to lump many things together. But it doesn't fit here. And that's why it's more accepted. There is no chemical reaction, no strong odor. It doesn't follow the huffing signals. Kyle complained a few days before he died of his tongue hurting. It probably did. The propellant causes frostbite. If I had only known. It's easy to say hey, it's my life
and I'll do what I want. But it isn't. Others are always affected. This has forever changed our family's life. I have a hole in my heart and soul that can never be fixed. The pain is so immense I can't describe it. There's nowhere to run from it. I cry all the time and I don't ever cry. I do what I'm supposed to do but I don't really care. My kids are messed up. One won't talk about it. The other will only sleep in our room at night. And my wife, I can't even describe how bad she is taking this. I thought we were safe because of Thor. I thought we were safe because we knew about drugs and talked to our kids about them.

After Kyle died another story came out. A probation Officer went to the school system next to ours to speak with a student. While there he found a student using Dust Off in the bathroom. This student told him about another student who also had some in his locker. This is a rather affluent school system. They will tell you they don't have a drug problem there. They don't even have a dare or plus program there. So rather than tell everyone about this 'new' way of getting high they found, they hid it.

The probation officer told the media after Kyle's death and they, the school, then admitted to it. I know that if they would have told the media and I had heard, it wouldn't have been in my house.

We need to get this out of our homes and school computer labs. Using Dust Off isn't new and some 'professionals' do know about. It just isn't talked about much, except by the kids. They all seem to know about it.

April 2nd was 1 month since Kyle died. April 5th would have been his 15th birthday. And every weekday I catch myself sitting on the living room couch at 2:30 in the afternoon and waiting to see him get off the bus. I know Kyle is in heaven but I can't help but wonder if I died and went to Hell.

This Officer is asking for EVERYONE who receives this email to forward it to everyone in their address book, even Law Enforcement Officers. Even if you do not have children, you can still forward this to friends & family who do.

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by lorri 15 Jun 2008

Wow!! I have not heard of this...I live in New Zealand all we here about is pills and glue sniffing. I'm really sorry for your loss.Its hard to believe, why do our kids do this !!! We try so hard to keep them on the right path.
Thank you for providing us with this information.